A walking tour and talk in the City of London, taking in landmarks of capitalist crisis past and present - organised by Mute magazine
(Writer) Fabian Tompsett and (Historian) Peter Linebaugh will guide a tour around the City relating the contemporary financial crisis to those of previous eras (such as the 1720 South Sea Bubble), using the urban fabric as text.
When: 3-5pm, Wednesday 12th November, 2008
Where: Meet 3pm at front entrance to the Royal Exchange, Threadneedle Street, London EC1
Nearest Tube: Bank
Admission: Free / All welcome
Thursday, 6 November 2008
How did YOU vote? Or your next-door neighbours 2nd cousins dog twice removed?
I counted 42 categories before i ran out of time and i was only a third down the page!
A great time filler for students who are supposed to be reading (it's 'Reading' week at SOAS-half term to all you normal people): beats washing the windows.
See for yourself here
A great time filler for students who are supposed to be reading (it's 'Reading' week at SOAS-half term to all you normal people): beats washing the windows.
See for yourself here
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Children's minister voices opposition to 'London living wage'
Once again a rich MPs attack the poor by claiming wage rises fuel inflation. I wonder if they can even comprehend what it is like to live on £5.53 per hour?
"Ed Balls, the children's secretary, and Yvette Cooper, the chief secretary to the Treasury, have launched an attack on the so-called London living wage – the £7.45 an hour recommended minimum for all workers in the capital. They claim it would be "artificial, inflationary" and not "necessary or appropriate." "
"There is nothing artificial about the financial hardship the people who keep this country running face" says Mark Serwotka, Gen Sec of PCS.
Read more here.
"Ed Balls, the children's secretary, and Yvette Cooper, the chief secretary to the Treasury, have launched an attack on the so-called London living wage – the £7.45 an hour recommended minimum for all workers in the capital. They claim it would be "artificial, inflationary" and not "necessary or appropriate." "
"There is nothing artificial about the financial hardship the people who keep this country running face" says Mark Serwotka, Gen Sec of PCS.
Read more here.
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Chris Rock about the War on Terror
Stolen from a certain Mr Game:
why (hopefully) the US elections will go like they will. There was a wonderful moment on Newsnight when Paxman, who increasingly represents the most obnoxious face of the British ruling class whimsically pointed out that the war was 'irrelevent' in the US election. He was vociferously contradicted by all Americans on the panel. The reason he was attempting to assert this was because of the elites visceral dislike of any concensus established by popular mobilization. In correctly warning that Obama is not about to change the nature of US capitalism it is absolutely vital that socialists do not resemble the dissolute cynicism of our rulers. You see the erosion of Bush all through Chris Rock's act amongst ordinary people even if he is hardly very radical himself. That erosion has been an excellent thing and the vote tonight is an index of it depth. And that is no bad thing. Hopefully
Report back from Another Education is Possible conference
Over 170 delegates participated throughout the day in the various workshops and debates. The overwhelming feeling of delegates was that we need an urgent response to the crisis in our education system. The NUS is not going to act to mobilise students so we need to fill that gap and start to rebuild the student movement from below. In this spirit the conference passed the founding statement and three amendments focused on action. Below are the initiatives called by the conference and the results of the committee elections.
Emergency Demonstration - 3pm on Friday the 14th of November
Assemble outside Westminster Cathedral, Victoria Street (5 minutes from Victoria station)
Tax the rich to fund…
- FREE EDUCATION & LIVING GRANTS FOR ALL
- £200 million “missing” from the governments budget for higher education but Billions in bail outs for the bankers
We have seen year-on-year attacks on our right for an education. The latest are cuts to thousands of student grants after a £200 million short-fall from the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills. This comes only a few weeks after the government promised to bail out bankers with billions of tax payer’s money.
(Publicity will be out in the next few days)
For a National Student Demonstration (25th of Feburary)
The existing calls for a national demonstration are positive and need to be turned into real activity on the ground. The conference agreed to call the demonstration for Wednesday the 25th of February assembling at ULU. The demonstration will then be in run up to the government announcing its new budget.
The conference also committed itself to organising an open meeting to discuss the demonstration and take the organisation of it to the next level. The steering committee will meet soon to put together an event where we can both launch the demonstration and draw together as many activists as possible to organise mobilising for it.
A National Tour
The conference noted that many high profile figures support our call to build a student movement for free education. The steering committee will organise contact speakers to organise meetings across the country to discuss what is happening to our education and organise action to defend it.
Election Results:
The following committee was elected:
Chair: Damiani Sourmaidou
Secretary: Yousuf Joondan
Convener: Dominic Kavakeb
Treasurer: Jenny Jones
Communications: Rob Owen
Block of ten:
Tom Wills (Sussex)
Bonolo Woracker (Coventry)
Zakeera Suffee (Essex)
Mpegwa Mwakang'ata (SOAS)
James Norrie (Oxford)
Alison Smith (Plymouth)
Siobhan Brown (Manchester)
James Foley (Glasgow)
Ben Sellers (SOAS)
Matt Vicary (Sheffield Hallam)
Discovering the source of wealth-part 1
In the first part of our new series on the history of economics, Anindya Bhattacharyya examines the theories of Adam Smith and David Ricardo
Adam Smith is considered to be the founder of modern economics. He was a pivotal figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, a period of intellectual and scientific creativity that swept across Scotland in the mid to late 18th century.
Read more here.
© Copyright Socialist Worker (unless otherwise stated). You may republish if you include an active link to the original and leave this notice in place.Help comrade Hossam unblock his Flickr account
He says: I had noticed that some of my recent pix from Ireland, that included the Palestine and the Republican murals were not viewable to the public unless they were signed in. I emailed the Flickr Gods...
Read more at Flickr censors my account
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Read more at Flickr censors my account
Also, please send the following short message to this email address:(case982056@support.flickr.com):
Dear Sir/Madam,
I voice my opposition to your decision to censor Hossam el-Hamalawy’s account.This is what i sent:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I voice my opposition to your decision to censor Hossam el-Hamalawy’s account.
Hossam has worked very hard getting people on to Flickr, including myself.
I have now continued his work and got even my aunty on flickr. We appreciate your service not least because it now means we dont have to force overseas friends and family to join facebook in order to see our pics, but also because flickr is such a great facility which is easy to use for us luddites.
Many thanks, but in protest
Security thugs assault Helwan U Socialists
Cross posted from Arabawy
Plainclothes thugs, with the help of the police, assaulted yesterday some members of the Resistance Students on Helwan University campus…
Monday, 3 November 2008
SOAS dancing on the grave of capitalism
See more pics at my fickr account
Very ghostly pic...
They followed a group of about 25 of us all the way to the Stop the War party. They were actually quite friendly (I'm not sure what their plan was) and even stopped the traffic to allow us to cross!
Me and Malaika looking oooh ever so scary! Suzie and I won a competition for scariest outfits, well, we came second but it was fixed! i also won the champagne in the raffle which was much more exciting...
Very ghostly pic...
They followed a group of about 25 of us all the way to the Stop the War party. They were actually quite friendly (I'm not sure what their plan was) and even stopped the traffic to allow us to cross!
Me and Malaika looking oooh ever so scary! Suzie and I won a competition for scariest outfits, well, we came second but it was fixed! i also won the champagne in the raffle which was much more exciting...
Sunday, 2 November 2008
New services good for bloggers...
12 Second TV-works a bit like Twitter/Jaiku and allows you to post 12 second video clips. Although, i haven't worked out how yo use it properly-i'll keep you posted.
And another one called Qik.com
Current/12 Election Challenge: Sing a campaign song for Obama or McCain. on 12seconds.tv
Current/12 Election Challenge: Sing a campaign song for Obama or McCain. on 12seconds.tv
And another one called Qik.com
Current/12 Election Challenge: Sing a campaign song for Obama or McCain. on 12seconds.tv
Current/12 Election Challenge: Sing a campaign song for Obama or McCain. on 12seconds.tv
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